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The second act of the big Mandarin arc gets underway, and although things look bad for Tony Stark, it’s clear that by the end of this issue that he’s got his mojo back. The scene where he snaps at Captain America and Ms Marvel is his lowpoint, and from then on… he’s fighting back. But really the best scenes in this issue weren’t even about Tony, there were the bits with Mandarin beating on Zeke Stane, and the weird unsettling conversations Stane was having with Sasha Hammer. What is the deal with the bad yogurt? Is it a Mandarin conspiracy yogurt? I also really liked the scene where Spymaster reveals he’s Pimacher (or was it the other way around?) and kills Cababa. It was surprisingly emotional, and it showed how much of a stone-cold killer Spymaster is, even though he loved Cababa, he still killed him.